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ADO can be used to access databases from your web pages.

What you should already know
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

HTML
ASP
SQL
If you want to study these subjects first, go to our Home page

What is ADO?
ADO is a Microsoft technology
ADO stands for ActiveX Data Objects
ADO is a Microsoft Active-X component
ADO is automatically installed with Microsoft IIS
ADO is a programming interface to access data in a database
Accessing a Database from an ASP Page
The common way to access a database from inside an ASP page is to:

Create an ADO connection to a database
Open the database connection
Create an ADO recordset
Open the recordset
Extract the data you need from the recordset
Close the recordset
Close the connection

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